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    "id": 1566690,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I rise to second. Of course, I was expecting that the Chairperson of the Budget and Finance Committee would say a few words about the fact that from the first day that we came to this House, we have passed a disbursement schedule every financial year. The National Treasury has never complied with any of the disbursement schedules that we have passed. I do not know what confidence the Chairperson has that this ritual that we engage in every year has any meaning at all. County governors will tell you they have been receiving the disbursement of the share of revenue for February in May. Why do we engage in this ritual? I hope that the people who have been here before or longer can explain to us. Really, do we need to do this? Look at the time that is remaining in the Financial Year. The Chairperson of the Committee on Budget and Finance has rightly indicated how we disburse in two tranches. I highly suspect that it will not even be done as he has proposed. My view would have been that the National Treasury must be told to send that money in one tranche in this month of May, so that we do not have those stories of capacity to absorb or the time to absorb these resources. Otherwise, as I second, this ritual has never made sense to me because no one listens to us."
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